Obama versus FOX: just keep poking that stick in your eye and it’ll do some real damage – novus2.com 10/23/2009 Obama Escalates Feud: Administration Attempts to Exclude Fox News from White House Pool Jeff Poor | NewsBusters Just when you thought the White House couldn’t possibly do anything to make their bizarre feud with the Fox News Channel an even larger spectacle – the administration manages to take it to another level.

spinlighted : whitehousephotostream : P090109-0127: EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST UNTIL 7AM (EDT), OCT. 23, 2009 President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, sit for a family portrait in the Green Room of the White House, Sept. 1, 2009. (Official White House Photo) Photo by Annie Leibovitz/Released by White House Photo Office LOL@embargoed. If they REALLY wanted this embargoed, they wouldn’t have put it on a public site.

WASHINGTON: The US Senate is poised to a send a defence bill to President Barack Obama late on Thursday, which includes tough new conditions on American military aid to Pakistan. The president is likely to sign the fiscal 2010 defence authorisation bill despite objections to its funding for a controversial backup jet fighter engine. ‘We do not expect the bill to be vetoed,’ said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin.

There’s no love lost between New York Governor Paterson and President Obama these days. Obama’s pay czar’s decision to slash the pay of Wall Street execs didn’t help matters. Paterson estimates the revenue hit for New York at about a billion bucks . David Paterson, ever the friend of the White House, just attacked the Obama administration’s decision to restrict bonus pay with John Gambling on WOR. “That probably cost New York $1 billion,” Paterson said. “And look, I’m not going to defend these people that run these companies.

Stamford, CT – When President Barack Obama visits Stamford on Friday, he won’t see Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., a resident and native of the city. Lieberman, who is Jewish, is not planning to attend the fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., because he’ll be celebrating the Sabbath at his Strawberry Hill Avenue home, his [...]

“Congressional leaders talk in private of being boxed in by commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh — figures who are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate, and who have proven records of making life miserable for senators and House members critical of their views or influence.“Some of the leading 2012 candidates are described by operatives as grappling with the same tension.

Washington  – US lawmakers have begun considering another round of spending measures to shore up the economy as the country continues on a painstaking journey from recession to recovery. You might call it a second stimulus, but it is more like a rash of much smaller initiatives. Time magazine dubbed it a “stealth stimulus” this week, and the term has stuck.Lawmakers are debating an extension of unemployment benefits beyond the end of 2009 and prolonging a tax credit for new home buyers that is set to expire on November 30.A variety of other measures have also been proposed, mostly by left-leaning Democrats.

- By Anita MonCrief A strange anomaly occurs whenever the phrase “voter registration fraud” is searched. Who’s responsible for that? Perhaps the players? Search the Internet and you will find dozens of stories on the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now or ACORN on a never ending stream of Google results. However, Project Vote (Voting for America) is often only listed as an affiliate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans that President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan decision is taking too long….

In a sly self-exculpation, reiterated by Baptist Press, Richard Landlaid down the law:He will continue to compare the Obama administration to the Nazis. He not only refuses be held accountable, having excused himself, he attacks his critics as “delusional.”Land’s illogic is as shameless as it is unpersuasive, very much like his earlier pseudo-apology.